Finland is still far from regaining its former political composure afterthe April 2011 elections, which saw the right-wing populist Finns Partywin a historic election victory by becoming the country’s third-largestpolitical force in parliament after the National Coalition Party and the SocialDemocrats. Compared to the elections before 2011, the number of Finns PartyMPs rose from five…
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Letter from Christian Thibault about the formation of a new government
I am currently not very motivated to help a government that includes the Finns Party to succeed, but for the sake of the Swedish People’s Party (SPP) and the country, I am writing this post anyway. I believe that SPP should demand tomorrow that the government program must include that all changes regarding immigration be…
Media Monitoring Group of Finland:* A disappointing parliamentary election
STATEMENT Just like in the last four parliamentary elections, narratives such as migrant crime spread by the far-right anti-immigration Finns Party (PS) paid off handsomely. It is not, however, the only reason why the PS was able to win a record 46 seats but was helped by the National Coalition Party, which won the election…
European Islamophobia Report 2022: Finland
While even the Islamophobic Finns Party (PS) does not object to the arrival oftens of thousands of white Ukrainian refugees to Finland, the treatment of Muslimsis different. Politicians and other public officials continue to see Muslims as a threatto national security. The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) has been the target ofcriticism for its arbitrary and…
Media Monitoring Group of Finland:* The PS wants foreigners to pay taxes and get nothing in return
STATEMENT The chairperson of the Finns Party, Riikka Purra, has said on several occasions that her party’s long-term goal is that only Finnish citizens have the right to social welfare. While such a plan is highly discriminatory, even racist, it is unfortunate that journalists don’t ask Purra what she means and what challenges would arise…
Sweden’s election spells trouble for Muslims, migrants, and minorities
The election in Sweden was of special interest to me since I live next door to the country in Finland. Will the good showing of the far-right Sweden Democrats boost our far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party in the April parliamentary election? While it is fair to predict that the election result in Sweden should not hurt…
Migrant Tales Literary: Anti-Perussuomalaiset poetry – an eye for an eye
No room for words today! Said the Finns Party politician that racist fascist hypocrite angry as hell yelling at the top of its voice: Give me a light, scum! Lighting its cigarette soon thumbs, hands, arms and other body parts melt and splash to the ground. In my hidout after that affair the police,…
Teivo Teivainen: How Finns Party’s Racist Turn Might Shake Government of Finland?
Now it’s real. Finland’s government includes a party that just elected a person convicted for a racist crime (ethnic agitation) as its new leader. The question is obviously not simply about Jussi Halla-aho’s criminal record, but that the party has decided to take a turn away from its agrarian populist roots and toward racism.
Why you should not call the Perussuomalaiset “the Finns Party”
Finland will become the third country in the EU along with Belgium and Greece that will have a populist and anti-EU party in government, according to The Guardian of London. The daily describes the Finns Party as far right. Just like Migrant Tales, it uses the acronym PS but mentions the official English name of…